Hi Elaine! I used to have an account with photobucket, which was very handy at several online forums and things. But sadly, they recently decided that everyone had to pay quite a lot for the privilege – which we can’t all do.

I’ll be interested to hear if you manage to find something similar, but still useful.

Angels . . . well, sometimes just slightly fallen ones! But they rarely mean to be wicked. They are just eternally, insatiably curious about everything in their world, and now and again trying to find out the details can result in something falling over.

Just like when human Dad is changing a light bulb, standing on a chair in the bathroom . . .…[Read more]

Well, he’s been working on repainting the hall, and replacing the floor . . . and that’s almost finished now! I won’t say that’s great fun, but he’s made a good job of it. Instead of a rather tired 60-year-old floor we now have a nice new, shiny one, which even makes the house warmer.

We had an anniversary too – on the 17th! But we don’t do anything about it now – he doesn’t remember dates anyway. Maybe next year, when we hit a biggie.

Cats and cameras aren’t always great pals, in my experience – a lot of ’em run a mile as soon as they see one coming! Rincewind was different though – he used to pose for the camera. He’d even…[Read more]

It must be Black Cat Day here . . . our little visitor spend most of yesterday here, not leaving until nearly 8 am, and she’s been back since lunchtime!

They were both very good yesterday, though. I was hard at work all day, editing and publishing – I wanted to get the proof version of Mum’s book out on her birthday. I didn’t think I’d manage…[Read more]

We weren’t at the original, obviously, but we did go to see the film about a year later. I loved The Who’s set – always a favourite of mine (sigh . . . !) – but my daughter wriggled and jiggled and danced all the way through Hendrix’s session.

Which was a little uncomfortable for me – because she wasn’t born until a month later.